附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 540-554) and index.
1. The Inventions Exhibition in London 1885 -- 2. An Elizabethan Settler Family -- 3. Interest in Astronomy -- 4. Engineering of a Giant Telescope -- 5. Scientific Achievement -- 6. The Family After the Death of the 3rd Earl -- 7. The Parsons Brothers Enter Manufacturing Industry -- 8. A Practical Steam Turbine -- 9. Clarke Chapman and Parsons, Partners -- 10. A New Start -- C A Parsons -- 11. A Marine Prototype -- 12. Obstacles Overcome -- 13. Turbine Blades and Propellers -- 14. International Recognition -- 15. Competitors and Licensees -- 16. Marine Applications -- 17. Technical Developments -- 18. Heaton Works Comes of Age -- 19. Aftermath of War -- 20. Other Inventive Endeavours -- 21. Optical Industries -- 22. Autumn of Life -- 23. An Assessment.
摘要:"This book looks at the way science and industry relate to one other, and at the way social attitudes affect this relationship. Garrett Scaife illustrates this beautifully by tracing the story of the remarkable endeavours of the Parsons family during the century and a quarter that embraced their lives in Ireland and Great Britain at the time of the developing industrial Revolution. The father of the family, William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, discovered the Spiral Nebula at his observatory in Ireland and displayed an unusual familiarity with engineering principles in the building of his two giant telescopes. His son, Charles, was at the forefront of the new age of technology among shipbuilders and engineers of the North East coast of England."--Jacket.
